I am me
the reflection staring back from the glass
the half full cup
the dark chocolate freak
sometime friend to a certain scale.
I learn in the face of challenge
that my obscurity may be a good thing
that as I trip and fall
no one will see
or care.
I am a notion
a shadow
a spot on the frame
moving past old beliefs.
Becoming new.
Sometimes haunted
chased
driven
alone.
I existed before to fill your square pegs
round spaces
anything.
I persist to soulfully
pound
in the dark
without a key
without a pigs chance in hell
that you will understand my need.
I am a rogue wave
a rushing tide
a rare
voice
a thinking stone
passionately pulled
occasionally moved.
Mixing and mashing theories
slashing
splitting
flicking hard-nosed butts
against a blue-green world
of melting ice
smoking pillars and
smashed stones.
I am me
a miracle
to those
that bore me
with nothing
but a seed to plant
nothing but hopes and dreams.
I am much more than your
dogma
much more than a pulsing frame
wary heart
weak organs
tired blood
hidden muscle and moral bone.
Protect me from your reckless ways.
Spare the child in me.
I deserve
to dream
to inherit the ideas
of our creator
to see
beyond the black
molten mass
we’ve
become.
the reflection staring back from the glass
the half full cup
the dark chocolate freak
sometime friend to a certain scale.
I learn in the face of challenge
that my obscurity may be a good thing
that as I trip and fall
no one will see
or care.
I am a notion
a shadow
a spot on the frame
moving past old beliefs.
Becoming new.
Sometimes haunted
chased
driven
alone.
I existed before to fill your square pegs
round spaces
anything.
I persist to soulfully
pound
in the dark
without a key
without a pigs chance in hell
that you will understand my need.
I am a rogue wave
a rushing tide
a rare
voice
a thinking stone
passionately pulled
occasionally moved.
Mixing and mashing theories
slashing
splitting
flicking hard-nosed butts
against a blue-green world
of melting ice
smoking pillars and
smashed stones.
I am me
a miracle
to those
that bore me
with nothing
but a seed to plant
nothing but hopes and dreams.
I am much more than your
dogma
much more than a pulsing frame
wary heart
weak organs
tired blood
hidden muscle and moral bone.
Protect me from your reckless ways.
Spare the child in me.
I deserve
to dream
to inherit the ideas
of our creator
to see
beyond the black
molten mass
we’ve
become.